Congress OKs Gun Industry Lawsuit Shield - Yahoo! News
Upshot? Smith & Wesson can't be sued if I go on a murderous rampage, but Grokster can be sued if I download Poison Ivy.
Wack.
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Congress OKs Gun Industry Lawsuit Shield - Yahoo! News
Upshot? Smith & Wesson can't be sued if I go on a murderous rampage, but Grokster can be sued if I download Poison Ivy.
Wack.
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Comments (2)
From an abstract point-of-view the legitimate use criteria does hold in these cases. I highly doubt that Bonjour/Rendezvous will suffer the same fate as the original Napster and Grokster did, enough though much of the same technology underlies them. This of course is also coming from the point of view of someone who works for a company that uses Bonjour to enable legal file sharing of digital media.
Posted by DanielR | October 20, 2005 8:54 PM
Posted on October 20, 2005 20:54
This ComputerWorld article about the Curtain falls on Grokster mentions a key point about why Grokster was successfully sued:
Posted by DanielR | November 8, 2005 7:51 AM
Posted on November 8, 2005 07:51